Steel is scarce. Wood is not an option. And you need a boat now. These wartime circumstances drove innovation in all kinds of crazy directions, and one somewhat less crazy direction — concrete boats.

Steel is scarce. Wood is not an option. And you need a boat now. These wartime circumstances drove innovation in all kinds of crazy directions, and one somewhat less crazy direction — concrete boats.

Look, Hollywood Beach was already cool. Segways, the Broadwalk, bar after bar after bar. But now? There’s a cement vessel named Usikusiku (Swahili for “twilight,” of course) that’s been sunk. It’s a ...

Auburn Career Center students are banking on making concrete boats float. Applying principles of math, science and design, teams of high school juniors in an architecture and project management class ...

A few years after mechanical engineer Carter Quillen bought the 50-foot concrete sailboat Ketch du Jour, he changed the vessel’s name to the Archimedes. For one thing, Quillen had replaced the masts ...

The 43-foot ferro cement sailboat doesn’t look very impressive sitting on the ocean floor about 75 feet deep off Hollywood. It’s plain and bare with no design flourishes. But the latest addition to ...

The sailboat Usikusiku was built in South Africa out of concrete, trucked to the coast, sailed to the Caribbean and ended its journey in Fort Lauderdale. But it had one final destination: the bottom ...

Holcim Cement boats will be relocating to the Waitemata port once a new terminal is completed. . Photo: Fairfax Media / Not-For-Syndication Cement boats docking at Onehunga port are set to become a ...

Q: I notice that the concrete sailboat on the east side of Route 378, just south of the I-78 underpass, is still there, stranded on dry land for many years. I believe it was written about by The ...